Return Of The Card Show

After a summer of no card shows in my area, I finally was able to attend one this past weekend. As usual, I went around first before making any purchases. I was looking for cheap boxes, cheap memorabilia cards and oddballs.

I was a little disappointed when I arrived because I didn't see the dealer with all the oddball cards in his normal space. There were a couple more dealers than usual, most offering things that I wasn't interested in. I struck out when it came to cheap boxes...there was quite a selection for 5 bucks a piece, but I had either already completed the set, or what I needed didn't warrant buying another box, even at $5. The one highlight of those was a box of 1991 Topps Stadium Club Series 2. If I hadn't got most of that set in the last monster box I bought, I would have been all over it.

This was my most expensive purchase of the day.

2014 Bowman Prospects Mookie Betts. This set me back a whole dollar.

After making my initial rounds, I was able to locate the dealer that I was looking for. He was in a completely different row on a different side of the room. He had binders full of cards that were ten cents a piece or three for a quarter.

I just started taking pages out of the binders.

1994 Kraft Singles Bobby Bonilla
1996 Bazooka Jim Edmonds
1994 Kraft Singles Bobby Bonilla
1988 Topps Bazooka Wade Boggs
1991 Topps Bazooka Shining Stars Jose Offerman
1989 Topps Bazooka Shining Stars Wade Boggs
1989 Topps Bazooka Shining Stars Mark Grace
1989 Topps Bazooka Shining Stars Mark Grace
1989 Topps Bazooka Shining Stars Ricky Jordan

Five of the nine cards in this page were holograms from the 1992 Denny's set which actually scanned quite well. These are 3-D and quite cool looking.

1992 Upper Deck Denny's Grand Slam Hologram Howard Johnson
1991 Pepsi Mike Greenwell
1992 Upper Deck Denny's Grand Slam Hologram Brian McRae
1992 Upper Deck Denny's Grand Slam Hologram Kal Daniels
1992 Upper Deck Denny's Grand Slam Hologram Luis Polonia
1992 Upper Deck Denny's Grand Slam Hologram Cecil Fielder
1988 Topps Bazooka Vince Coleman
1992 Diet Pepsi Barry Larkin (A Canadian Issue!)
1988 Topps Bazooka Tony Fernandez

1992 Donruss McDonalds Blue Jays Gold Roberto Alomar (x3) - released only in the greater Toronto area.
1991 Jumbo California Sunflower Seeds Andre Dawson
1987 Hygrade Baseball's All-Time Greats Duke Snider
1991 Jumbo California Sunflower Seeds Andre Dawson
1992 Fleer Citgo 7-11 The Performer Frank Thomas (x3)

1988 Topps Bazooka George Bell
1988 Topps Bazooka Benny Santiago
1988 Topps Bazooka Todd Worrell
1988 Topps Bazooka Tony Fernandez
1988 Topps Bazooka Juan Samuel
1986 Topps Quaker Chewy Granola Bars Gary Carter
1988 Topps Bazooka George Bell
1993 Hostess Baseballs Tom Glavine
1988 Topps Bazooka Eric Davis

1984 Topps Cereal Gary Carter
1994 Tombstone Pizza Jim Abbott
1988 Topps Bazooka Juan Samuel
1988 Topps Bazooka Tim Raines
1988 Topps Bazooka Benny Santiago
1988 Topps Bazooka Willie McGee
1988 Topps Bazooka Wade Boggs (x3)

1995 Denny's Hologram Moises Alou
1995 Denny's Hologram Juan Gonzalez
1995 Denny's Hologram Juan Gonzalez
1995 Denny's Hologram Rafael Palmeiro
1995 Denny's Hologram Jeff Montgomery
1995 Denny's Hologram Rafael Palmeiro
1995 Denny's Hologram Kirby Puckett
1995 Denny's Hologram Bret Saberhagen
1995 Denny's Hologram Kirby Puckett

1992 Topps McDonalds Baseballs Best Jose Canseco (x3)
1992 Topps McDonalds Baseballs Best Will Clark (x3)
1992 Topps McDonalds Baseballs Best Dale Murphy (x3)

You've probably noticed that I've picked up quite a few dupes so far. I haven't been anywhere near as active on the trading front as I was last year, so I'm sure I can add to some bloggers PC's with some of these.

However, this is what I was really interested in. Again, I just started pulling out pages with no regard to the players themselves.

From what I could find out about these cards, they are from the 1979 TCMA Baseball History Series. This group of cards focuses on players from the 1950's. I believe you could only order this set through the mail. There were several pages of these and I grabbed all I could find. These are only cards of Red Sox players, so I have a fair amount of dupes of these.

The above sheet contains cards of pitchers Mickey McDermott, Frank Sullivan and Ray Scarborough.

More of Frank Sullivan, but also pitchers Mel Parnell and Billy Klaus.

More of Klaus, Parnell and McDermott, plus first baseman Norm Zauchin and southpaw Bill Wight.

This page starts with another Norm Zauchin and Bill Wight, and finishes with outfielder Jimmy Piersall, first baseman Walt Dropo and pitcher Ellis Kinder.

Reliever Mike Fornieles starts off this page and is followed by catcher Sammy White, then dupes of Ellis Kinder, Bill Wight and Mel Parnell.

Here you see dupes of Ellis Kinder, Mike Fornieles, Bill Wight and Walt Dropo.

Finishing up the 1979 TCMA cards are more of Norm Zauchin and Jimmy Piersall.

The bottom three cards are:

1990 Swell Baseball Greats Bobby Doerr
1990 Swell Baseball Greats Rick Ferrell
1990 Swell Baseball Greats Ken Brett

There was also some of the 1978 TCMA set which featured players from the 1960's. In this page there are three cards each of third baseman Frank Malzone, catcher Bob Tillman and pitcher Arnold Earley.

I'll finish this up on my next post which has more of these 1978 TCMA cards plus a bunch of other cool oddballs!